A Minecraft shader is a mod that improves the graphics of Minecraft. You will notice new features like more realistic water, better shadows, realistic leaves and much more. This makes Minecraft as beautiful as current high resolution games. 📤 For which Minecraft version can I use shaders? All kinds of Minecraft texture packs and resource packs, to change the look of Minecraft in your game.

Continuum 2.1 is the natural evolution of Continuum 2.0. It comes with a further refined and optimized code-base, with which we are able to push effects not seen in most ‘AAA’ titles, with better performance than ever before. Continuum 2.1 is designed to suite the needs of cinematic creators, builders, and general Minecraft players alike, while still offering many advanced tools and features you’d only find in modern rendering engines. Continuum 2.1 is currently only available via our Continuum Early Access package, which you can find in the store, however, once it exits Early Access it will see a full free release, much like 2.0 did. Read on for more info…

Long considered the gold standard of Minecraft shaders, Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders (SEUS) have been around since 2011, only 2 years after Minecraft originally launched. In that time, this shader pack has gone through a number of different versions. Feb 08, 2021 When the concept of Minecraft shaders was first introduced, it didn't have all the crazy graphical upgrades most packs have today. Instead, it focused on just upgrading the lighting and general look without taking away from the classic look of the game. This is why the Nostalgia Shader pack is perfect.

Continuum 2.1 is designed in two stages; the lighting stage, and the toning stage. In the lighting stage we do our best to assure proper energy by rendering with real measured values. Coming with a physically based Sky, Material System, Ambient Light, Reflections, and Volumetrics (Clouds, Air and Water); Continuum can make any Minecraft build look like it was exported from offline renderers, but in real time*.

*Performance will vary depending on your hardware configuration. Continuum is optimized, but some of the effects being used are quite expensive regardless.

Continuum 2.1 comes equipped with a physically based camera system. This means that we are simulating a raw camera inside the game. Using common values such as Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed, and Exposure, the user can line up the perfect screenshot, just like you would with a camera, but in Minecraft!

Continuum 2.1 will offer a highly intuitive and configurable color grading system. Everything down to the tonemap will be configurable, with options to adjust the toe, slope, and shoulder of the tonemap, the user can truly make the shader their own. Other settings will include White Balance, Contrast, Vibrance, Saturation, Gain, and many more, making adjustments is easy and convenient. However, if that isn’t enough for your needs, we will allow you to upload a custom LUT into the shader just to make sure we offer anything a cinematographer would need.

Want Continuum 2.1 now? Consider Continuum Early Access!

Continuum Early Access

Continuum Early Access is a one time purchase that grants access to the currently in development shader, Continuum 2.1, at each of the following stages of development:

ALPHA

Alpha Builds are the latest builds of the shader. These will give you access to what the devs are working on as they are working on it. They may be a bit more buggy than other builds at times.

Current Status is late Alpha/near beta

Minecraft Shaders 1.8.9

BETA

Minecraft Shaders 1.16.5

Beta Builds are released when we have reached a significant milestone where the shader is in mostly working order, and is considered by the developers to be ‘feature complete’.

RC

Release Candidates are nearly complete versions of the shader, generally far more stable than any of the others. These builds are nearly fully featured and are just lacking that last bit of polish.

Continuum Early Access will grant you access to Continuum 2.1 and potential future versions of the mainline, non-RT Continuum Shader while they are still in active development. This allows you to play with the absolute latest stuff we are working on as we are working on it.

It also supports the projects continued development, and us, which we appreciate very much.

Get Continuum Early Access

Continuum 2.0

Much like Continuum 2.1 is the natural evolution of Continuum 2.0, 2.0 is the natural evolution of 1.3. It boasts a completely new codebase, marking the first time a Continuum shader was not based on SEUS code. It was a landmark release for Continuum Graphics, and while it has it's issues, will always be special to us.

Continuum 1.3

Continuum 1.3 was the pinnacle of what the Continuum team could do within the bounds of old SEUS O3 shader code, and despite it being fairly outdated by modern Minecraft shader standards, is still a favorite of many of our fans to this day. It will live on in spirit and overall feel, but be brought into the modern age with the release of Continuum Legacy.

You can find downloads for our previous/free releases of Continuum on our downloads page:

Continuum Downloads

BSL Shaders

Bycapttatsu

9.4M DownloadsUpdated Mar 7, 2021Created May 24, 2019

Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition with high customization and optimization.

Chocapic13' Shaders

ByChoca_13

2.2M DownloadsUpdated Feb 28, 2021Created Mar 14, 2020

Fast and High Quality Shaderpack

Complementary Shaders

ByEminGTR

733K DownloadsUpdated Apr 8, 2021Created May 24, 2020

Shaderpack that aims to be good at everything.

Beyond Belief Shaders

Byunicornblood2468

1.7M DownloadsUpdated Dec 17, 2020Created Aug 3, 2017

A shaderpack that has evolved tremendously over the years!

AstraLex Shader (BSL Edit)

ByLexBoosT

259K DownloadsUpdated Apr 24, 2021Created Sep 2, 2020

BSL Shader (EDIT) with a lot of cool options !

Chocapic13' High Performance shaders

ByChoca_13

275K DownloadsUpdated Sep 20, 2020Created Sep 18, 2020

A simple high framerate shaderpack for gameplay

Vanilla Plus Shader

ByRRe36

584K DownloadsUpdated Jan 16, 2021Created May 22, 2019

A shaderpack looking like Vanilla, but with better clouds and shadows.

Nostalgia Shader

ByRRe36

349K DownloadsUpdated Mar 2, 2021Created Jul 5, 2019

A shader designed to replicate the feel of the first days of the shadersmod.

Oceano Shaders 3.0

ByLittleRoofie

359K DownloadsUpdated Jan 10, 2021Created Sep 4, 2019

A Vibrant Tropical Shaderpack for Minecraft Java Edition

projectLUMA Shaderpack

Bydedelner

287K DownloadsUpdated Dec 14, 2019Created Dec 14, 2019

projectLUMA is a shaderpack made for the Minecraft Shaders Mod (OptiFine)

Tea Shaders

Byunicornblood2468

327K DownloadsUpdated Apr 28, 2021Created Jul 22, 2019

Vanilla Minecraft with a little extra!

Voyager Shader

Bysymbiome67

313K DownloadsUpdated Feb 27, 2021Created Jan 3, 2020

If you want some realism , this shaders is for you !

SORA Shaders

Bysqueakypistonmc

185K DownloadsUpdated Nov 22, 2020Created Jun 17, 2020

High Performance Gameplay Oriented Customizable